{"id":1837,"date":"2017-11-19T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-11-19T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:30:53","slug":"carbondale-fern-fossil-site-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/carbondale-fern-fossil-site-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale Fern Fossil Site – CLOSED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carbondale had an area, site of former strip mining, that still had piles and heaps of shale and slate that contained fern fossils. American Geode has the good fortune of discovering this site back in 2015 and recovered many fern fossils for our clients in academia, for our collector clients and for donation to the gem, mineral and fossil societies to which American Geode belongs.<\/p>\n

American Geode are very sad to report that this fern fossil site is now CLOSED and OFF-LIMITS. We returned to the site and saw a large sign declaring that this was a Pennsylvania State Mine Reclamation Project, and as we walked around, we saw no more hills, no pilings, no mounds. Everything was razed. The site was closed, off limits, we could see the tracks from heavy equipment that bull-dozed over the pilings and fossil mounds; this fern fossil site is gone. We took some photos of the now desolate and closed Carbondale fern fossil site, and American Geode still has some of these fossils in our inventory available for studying or purchase:
\nName: Fern Fossils and Tree Branches
\nFern Species: Alethopteris
\nLocation: Carbondale, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
\nTime: Pennsylvanian Sub-period, 320-290 million years old
\nLlewellyn Formation
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Carbondale had an area, site of former strip mining, that still had piles and heaps of shale and slate that contained fern fossils. American Geode has the good fortune of discovering this site back in 2015 and recovered many fern fossils for our clients in academia, for our collector clients and for donation to the … <\/p>\n

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